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The Deep Ideological Origins of Critical Race Theory | James Lindsay

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The Metaphysical Underpinning of Hegel's Religion

Hegel has a metaphysical underpinning to this, and this is why you have to understand this as a religion. And that's going to give rise to a spirit that's wholly nourishing where you have Marx and Engels talking about what would you do under communism. Was Hegel a progressive? Who knows? Immediately upon his death in 1831, two huge movements were spawned that were hieroglyphic; one was super-progressive while the other was uber-conservative. The system becomes a demi-urgos that creates the world as it is.

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